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PIN TICKET. No. 256,342. Patented Apr.11, 1882..

WITNESSES: S Y H J g. MWZ W W t I ATTORNEYS...

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXIUS T. Lunnovisn'on NEW YORK, N. Y.

PIN-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,342, dated April 11, 1882.

Application filed February 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXtUs T. LUNDQVIST, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets; and I do herebydeclare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghadto the aceompanyingdrawings,'which form a part of this specification, and in which 7 Figure l is a plan or top view of my improvedpin ticket. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the reverse or back part of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the same. Fig. at is a similar view, showing it applied to a piece of cloth or other fabric; and Figs. 5 and 6 represent modifications in the construction of the ticket.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to socalled pintickets for marking dry-goods or other softfabrics or articles of clothing with the price or quality of the goods, or such other marks or descriptive matter asit maybe desirable to place upon them; and it consists in the improved construction of a tag or ticket of that class, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Myimproved pin-ticket is composed of three parts-via, a piece of paper, card-board, or other suitable material, A, upon which the marks are written or printed, aback plate or mount, B, made of brass or other suitable sheet metal, and a double-pronged pin, 0, for the attachment of the tag or ticket to the goods to be marked. The mark-card A is secured upon plate B by turning down aflange, I), of the latter all around the edge of the card or, instead of a solid or contiguous holdingfiange, I), as shown in Fig. 1, the edge of the plate may be cut to form lips c c, as shown in Fig. 5, which, when turned down over the edge of the card, perform the same function as the solid flange 12. Again, the card A may be, as

in Fig. 1, of the same size as the plate B, upon which it is mounted; or it may be of the same width, but longer, so as to be extended at both ends of the plate, as shown in Fig. 5; or, again, it may be both longer and wider than the plate, as in Fig. 6, sofas to overlap both the ends and sides of the latter. Where a card plate, instead of the continuous card-frame or flange b. The middle part of the plate B is pressed and cut in a snitably-constructed die to form two parallel hinge-loops, a a, leaving the body of the plate flat and smooth, so that the card A, or that part of it which covers the same, will lie perfectly flat and smooth on the plate.

()is the double-pronged fastening-pin, which is inserted through the loops ac, which form a hinge for the same.

No part of the pin, it will be seen, projects up over the Hat inner surface of the plate, so that the card may be written upon or otherwise marked without the least inconvenience.

By making the double-pronged pin G hinged in themanner'deseribed, instead of attaching it rigidly to the plate B or to the card, the lat-- ter is enabled to adjust itself upon the goods onwhich it is afiixed, so as to be in an easy and convenient position for writing on it. An-

other advantage is that the tickets may he packed by folding the pin down fiat upon the back, so as to occupy but very little room; nor is there any danger of the card and its back plate becoming detached from the pin in handling the goods.

Having thus described my invention,1 do not claim broadly a tag-holder consisting of a metallic base or basefplate having holding prongs or points for its attachment to the fabric to be marked but What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- The improved pin tag or ticket for marking goods herein shown and described, the same ALEXIUS THEODOR LUNDQVIST,

Witnesses:

EMIL DRESCHER, FRITZ E. DREsoHER. 

